Buggy-top duster.



ANo.' 772,836. PATENTBD 00T. 18, 1904.

Y J. P. SHIPMAN.'

BUGGY TOP DUSTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 31, 1904..

,No MODEL.

@uve/nica l. A@IMM Patented October 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PHILIP SHIPMAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BUGGY-TOP DUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,836, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed March 31, 1904:.

T0 @ZZ whom, it nca/y concern:

Be it known that I, J oHNy PHILIP SHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buggv-TopDusters, of which the following is a specification.y

This invention relates to improvements inA buggy-top dust-hoods of that class which are adapted to cover and protect vehicletops when the latter are in folded position, and relates particularly to novel means for holding the hood in iirm'connection with the foreand arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter set4 forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a buggy seat and top, showing a dust-hood applied thereto and embodying thefeatures of the invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the foremost bow of the buggy-top, illustrating the hood applied thereto, and the latter broken away to show the retainingmeans therefor. Fig. 3 is a detail perspectiveview of a portion of the re= taining means for the hood and one of ,the

yterminal fasteningr devices. 4 .t

Similar'numerals are employed to indicate corresponding .parts in the several views.

The numeral l designates a buggy-top com.- posed ofthe usual bows and including a foremost bow 2, which occupies lan upper position when the top is lowered. The dust-hood 3 is applied in thepresent instance as in the ordinary devices of this class and is formed with aiiat end pocket 4, extendingfully throughout the width thereof and a short distance over the opposite sides, where openings 5 are provided by slotting or cutting away portions of Serial No. 200,989. (N0 modelli the sides of the hood to lit over the vuppermost props or prop-joint pins 6. The pocket 4 terminates at opposite sides, adjacent to the rear end of the hood, close to the props or pins 6, when the said hood isapplied. Freely movable in the pocket: is an elastic retention-band 7, having hooks 8 secured to the opposite extremities thereof, theelastic band'extending fully from hook to hook and is of such thickness as to increase its durabilityy and effectiveness in securing the rear end of the dust-hood to the buggy-bow. As before indicated, the band 7 is free to slip in the pocket 4@ to a limited extent, and the advantage of this arrangement is that the portion of the hood through which the band extends may be drawn tightly against the part of the bow engaged by the hood without wrinkling or tearing the latter, and thus eect a neat application. The band by its frictional contact and pressureyon the inner part of the pocket will cause the rear end of f the hood to remain in firm engagement with the bow. The hooks 8 are exposed through the openings 5 and are caught over the top props orpins 6. The hooks may be attached to the band by sewing the latter or byany other preferred means and are constructed from flat sheet metal, and each has a downwardly and rearwardly opening throat 9, the

rear wall 10 of said throat being straight and inclined downwardly and rearwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, to facilitate the 'detachment of the hooksfrom` theprops or pins 6. The front wall of the throat of each hook has a concave curvature,as at 11, and is drawn closely against the pins 6 by the .tension of the band 7 when y the hood and hooks are applied. The band 7 also presents a fiat surface without intermediate joints or projections that would show through, the pocketed portion of the hood, vand the use .of this form of band will be effective also in preventing wrinlrling or bunching ofl the hood. Moreover, the elastic band adapts the hood to `be applied to buggy-tops of different lwidths without requiring changes of the same. The elastic band, with its terminal hooks, and the pocket construction may also be employed with storm-fronts with material advantage in the use and operation of the latter.

A Ioo Changes in the proportions,dimensions, and minor details may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- A protector for buggy-tops comprising a dust-hood having a fiat pocket in one end thereof lying over and against the top bow and extending along and around the latter and having opposite side openings through which the props of the bow project, a lat strip of continuous elastic material loosely and slidalol y mounted in the pocket and having its ends extending through the open ends of said pocket, said ends of said elastic strip hzwing Hat hooks secured thereto, the thickness ol which corresponds to the thickness of the lut surface of said strips, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof l allix nl v signature in 2O presence of two witnesses.

JOHN PHILIP SI-IllMAN. fitnessesz VILLIAM E. CLARK, ROBERT N. DnNnAM. 

